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The result was merge to Cardinal Health. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 10:19, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kinray[edit]

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No longer exists Ravpapa (talk) 10:05, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This article was questionable to begin with. It used to be one of the biggest independent pharmaceutical wholesalers (its website says the biggest, but other sources waffle on that description) in the US, but that in itself is a dubious distinction: pharmaceutical wholesalers are generally not independent, but are owned by health care providers, drug manufacturers, or other companies. In any case, Kinray was a smallish fish in a very big pond.

No matter. The company has since been bought out by Cardinal, so that dubious distinction no longer exists.

The article, incidentally, was created by a user whose sole mission here was to create puff articles for clients of the PR firm 5WPR. The user, User:babasalichai, has since been banned for sock puppetry. --Ravpapa (talk) 10:05, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:31, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:31, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Cardinal Health. The fact that the company no longer exists is irrelevant, if it was notable once; notability is not temporary. But most of the hits at Google News are about the acquisition, not about the pre-existing company, suggesting it was not notable. --MelanieN (talk) 15:45, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:15, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and redirect to Cardinal Health. The company's listing on the Forbes list implies at least marginal notability, and Kinray's acquisition certainly seems notable to Cardinal's history.--Arxiloxos (talk) 02:58, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Cardinal Health - not convinced it needs a separate article, but it's worth mentioning in that one (in fact, it already is). Robofish (talk) 23:04, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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